Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PARRY, WILLIAM JOHN (1842 - 1927), Labour leader, and author too revolutionary. He proposed in it the reorganization of local government, the reform of the House of Lords, and the establishment of provincial councils for Wales, Scotland, etc. He was a member of the first Caernarvonshire county council in 1889, and its chairman in 1892-3. He presented very many books and papers to the National Library of Wales and to the library of the University College of
PARRY-WILLIAMS, DAVID EWART (1900 - 1996), musician Born Glynneath, Glamorgan, 25 June 1900, the son of the village schoolmaster, Tom Williams, and his wife Mary Ann who ran the local Post Office. He received instruction in music from his uncle, who was the organist at Bethania chapel in Glynneath, and played the cello in a small orchestra at Bethania. When his uncle moved to London to be organist of Charing Cross Welsh chapel, the nephew visited
PARRY-WILLIAMS, Sir THOMAS HERBERT (1887 - 1975), author and scholar the BBC's Welsh Council and Warden of the University of Wales Guild of Graduates. Knighted in 1958, he was given an honorary doctorate by the University of Wales in 1960 and was made honorary fellow of Jesus College, Oxford in 1968. He died of a heart attack at his home, Wern, North Road, Aberystwyth, on 3 March 1975. A memorial service was held at Bangor Crematorium and his ashes were buried in the
PASK, ALUN EDWARD ISLWYN (1937 - 1995), rugby player and teacher Sevens overcoming London Welsh in the final at Twickenham. Pask's first period as captain of the Abertillery side came in the 1960-61 season and in late November 1960 he was a member of the combined Abertillery and Ebbw Vale side who were narrowly beaten (0-3) by South Africa at Eugene Cross Park. After travelling as reserve on 13 occasions for the Welsh side he finally made his debut for Wales in
PEARCE, EVAN WILLIAM (1870 - 1957), minister (Presb.), and author , Porthcawl, where he was minister for 25 years, retiring in 1927. He served as Moderator and secretary of East Glamorgan presbytery. On 31 March 1898 he married Rachel James in Swansea and they had a daughter. He lived most of his life in Gorlan, Green Avenue, Porthcawl, and died 30 August 1957. He took a great interest in local history and in the history of his own denomination, and was one of the first
PECOCK, REGINALD (c. 1390 - c. 1461), bishop that borne by Elen Pecoc. He is called ' presbyter dioecesis Menevensis,' but neither this nor his appointment to a Welsh see is proof of Welsh origin, while there is no sign of Welsh influence in the English dialect which he wrote. Pecock was a Doctor of Divinity of Oxford, Fellow of Oriel College, 1414-25, ordained 1420-1, rector of S. Michael Royal and master of Whittington College, London, 1431
PENNAR, ANDREAS MEIRION (1944 - 2010), poet and scholar and religious interest. He graduated in Welsh at Swansea University College in 1966 and then entered Jesus College, Oxford, as a research student. He gained his DPhil in 1975 for his work on women in medieval Welsh literature. Following a period with the Welsh Schools' Council he was appointed to a lectureship in Welsh in University College Dublin where he met Carmel Gahan whom he married 3 January
PENNY, ANNE (fl. 1729-1780), author The entry in the Bangor (Caernarfonshire) parish register recording her christening under 6 January 1728/9, describes her as daughter of Bulkeley Hughes (died 1740?), cleric, and Mary his wife; the father became vicar of Bangor, 2 June 1713, and was instituted to the living of Edern on 17 January 1722/3. She married Penny, and lived in London (Bloomsbury Square), where all her works were
PENRY, DAVID (1660? - 1721?) Llwchwr area. The Common Fund granted him £6 during the years 1690-3, and another sum of £9 was given by the Presbyterian Board. For a time, he served the congregation meeting at Tirdwncyn, in the parish of Llangyfelach, and was released from there on 14 January 1701 in order to assist at Cwmllynfell and Gellionnen. In 1705, the wardens of Llan-non report that 'one David Penry' and a number of
PENRY, JOHN (1563 - 1593), Puritan author fled to Scotland. The archbishop's officers searched the house of the Godleys in Northampton. In 1590 Penry produced A Briefe Discovery in answer to the attacks of Richard Bancroft on the Scots Church. He re-entered England in September 1592, and allied himself with the London Separatist followers of Henry Barrow. The vicar of Stepney betrayed his whereabouts and he was arrested 22 March 1592/3 at
PERRI, HENRY (1560/1 - 1617) Maes Glas (Greenfield) He was of gentle birth. It is believed that he was the ' Henry Parry ' who became a member of Balliol College, Oxford, at the age of 18, 20 March 1578/9; B.A. Gloucester Hall, 1579/80; M.A. 1582/3; B.D. Jesus College, 1597. Humphrey Humphreys testified - on the authority of his son-in-law - that he had travelled considerably and had married before he came to Anglesey as Sir Richard Bulkeley's
PERROT family Haroldston, , daughter of Hugh Prust of Thorney in Devon and widow of Sir Lewis Pollard of Oakford, Devon, by whom he had a son William (died 1587) and two daughters, Lettice, who married (1) Rowland Laugharne of St. Bride's, (2) Walter Vaughan of Golden Grove and St. Bride's (the latter in right of his wife), and (3) Arthur Chichester, baron Chichester of Belfast and later lord-deputy of Ireland, and Ann, who married

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